beetle {AICcmodavg} | R Documentation |
This data set illustrates the acute mortality of flour beetles (Tribolium confusum) following 5 hour exposure to carbon disulfide gas.
data(beetle)
A data frame with 8 rows and 4 variables.
Dose
Number_tested
Number_killed
Mortality_rate
Burnham and Anderson (2002, p. 195) use this data set originally from Young and Young (1998) to show model selection for binomial models with different link functions (logit, probit, cloglog).
Burnham, K. P., Anderson, D. R. (2002) Model Selection and Multimodel Inference: a practical information-theoretic approach. Second edition. Springer: New York.
Young, L. J., Young, J. H. (1998) Statistical Ecology. Kluwer Academic Publishers: London.
data(beetle) ## maybe str(beetle) ; plot(beetle) ...